Why you should be looking for a HiverHQ alternative

Although in the email helpdesk market HiverHQ sells itself as a management software for teams, after analysing their service we have seen some aspects that needupgrades.

And it goes beyond just the software itself, expanding to the whole experience provided. Sometimes companies forget their work must begin much before users buy their product/service, and it ends after as well.

Collaboration

For instance, let’s say you are a CEO and need to share some emails with your secretary. In Hiver, either all your emails must be shared or you will need two emails. Apart from that, in Drag you can select what emails will be shared, and with a single click, everything you want is in your sharedinbox. Everything else? Private to you.

We believe everyoneshouldhavetheirownemail, and shared spaces — whether it means another email (such as support@yourcompany) or not. This is where email becomes truly collaborative, and yet safe.

In Hiver, depending on your plan, you can have as low as 2 shared inboxes. At Drag it is unlimited.

Pricing plans

It seems like Hiver has developed a system for smallcompanies which don’t aim to grow. Plans start with not so many features, but as you see them growing, these plans don’tfollow. So you would probably have to migrate to another solution as your company gets bigger.

Big team? Hiver might not be the best option for you, as it only supports up to 25sharedinboxes, at some point it won’t be enough.

Also, this plan costs $34/month/user against Drag’s $12. It’s almost 3 times more expensive. In a company with 100 people, it means you save up to $1,300/month.

Bad support

Nothing is as bad that it can’t get worse. Software issues allied to bad support just makes us loseourminds. Hiver clients have had many kinds of issues, such as no refunds and no answers at all.

We’ve seen clients even say “support was non-existent” when talking about issues they had with Hiver.

At Drag, we take our customers very seriously, so we listen to every complain and suggestion, and then we grow from that. We believe that only by achieving a true collaborative feedback system we can develop ourselves as a company and also our software.

Conclusion

If you’ve ever stopped to see HiverHQ in action, you’ll see the company has a good service, but there’s also much room for improvements, specially in what concerns teamwork and helpdesk. And alternatives are many in the market, so you should stop and think about what you and your company really need.

As Drag, a competitor, but before that, a company that believes in the best for customers, our suggestion for before you jump into this tool is to make a good research and look for other small and innovative softwares, because they can solve what you need for less money — and less other issues as well.

Lastly, check Drag out to see if a Shared Inbox, in Gmail, in a Kanban format fits your needs. Maybe it does 🙂